A motion to reconsider the vote whereby said bill was passed was, by unanimous consent, laid on the table. Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in said bill. 124.9 PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3019 Mr. DREIER, by direction of the Committee on Rules, called up the following resolution (H. Res. 372): Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule XXIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3019) making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a further downpayment toward a balanced budget, and for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. The amendment printed in section 2 of this resolution shall be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as the original bill for the purpose of further amendment. This bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. No further amendment shall be in order except those specified in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Each further amendment may be considered only in the order specified in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment except as specified in the report, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against the amendments specified in the report are waived. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit. The motion to recommit may include instructions only if offered by the minority leader or his designee. SEC. 2. The amendment considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole is as follows: Page 539, line 16, strike "specifically addresses the availability of" and insert in lieu thereof "expressly makes available for obligation". When said resolution was considered. After debate, Mr. DREIER submitted the following amendment: Page 3, after 12, add the following: "Page 539, line 15, strike 'legislation' and insert in lieu thereof 'reconciliation legislation'.". On motion of Mr. DREIER, the previous question was ordered on the amendment and the resolution. The question being put, viva voce, Will the House agree to said amendment? The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. GILLMOR, announced that the yeas had it. Mr. MOAKLEY objected to the vote on the ground that a quorum was not present and not voting. A quorum not being present, The roll was called under clause 4. rule XV, and the call was taken by electronic device. When there appeared Yeas Nays ... 228 183 [Roll No. 49] Reed Richardson Rivers Roemer Rose Roybal-Allard Manzullo Foley Martini Forbes Collins (IL) Conyers Franks (CT) Costello Kildee Kleczka Klink La Falce Sawyer Schroeder Schumer Scott Serrano McHugh Skaggs McKeon Slaughter Lipinski DeLauro Mica Lofgren Dellums Lowey Spratt Stark Stenholm Studds Myrick Markey Taylor (MS) Ney Norwood Edwards Engel Hall (TX) Eshoo Packard Evans Farr Fattah Meehan Meek Menendez Moakley Ford Frank (MA) Fazio Fields (LA) McCarthy McHale Miller (CA) Minge Mink Mollohan Montgomery Tejeda Thompson Torres Towns Murtha Wise Woolsey Rohrabacher Oberstar Obey Collins (GA) Combest Condit Istook Roth Roukema Royce NOT VOTING-20 Pomeroy Ros-Lehtinen Scarborough Stokes Peterson (MN) Buyer Callahan Canady Chambliss Chenoweth Christensen Chrysler Clinger Coble Coburn Cooley Crane Hilleary Lazio Linder Livingston LoBiondo Schiff Furse Solomon Souder Spence Stearns Stockman Stump Tauzin Taylor (NC) So the amendment was agreed to. The question being put, viva voce, Will the House agree to said resolution, as amended? The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. LAHOOD, announced that the yeas had it. Mr. MOAKLEY demanded a recorded vote on agreeing to said resolution, as amended, which demand was supported by one-fifth of a quorum, so a recorded vote was ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device. Talent Tate Doolittle Duncan Franks (NJ) Frelinghuysen Leach Longley Manzullo NOES-175 Tauzin Taylor (MS) Wamp Young (AK) So the resolution, as amended, was agreed to. A motion to reconsider the vote whereby said resolution, as amended, was agreed to was, by unanimous consent, laid on the table. 124.12 FURTHER DOWNPAYMENT TOWARD A BALANCED BUDGET The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. LAHOOD, pursuant to House Resolution 372 and rule XXIII, declared the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 3019) making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a further downpayment toward a balanced budget, and for other purposes. The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. LAHOOD, by unanimous consent, designated Mr. DREIER as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole; and after some time spent therein, 124.13 RECORDED VOTE A recorded vote by electronic device was ordered in the Committee of the Whole on the following amendment submitted by Mrs. LOWEY: Page 372, strike section 509 (relating to State discretion to not fund abortions under Medicaid). Fawell Fox Miller (CA) Frank (MA) Minge Mink McCarthy Metcalf Upton Wilson Wise Woolsey Moran Zeliff Morella Zimmer Nadler Neal NOES-222 Allard Archer Armey Bunn Bunning Burr Burton Barrett (NE) Callahan Cubin Danner Dornan So the amendment was not agreed to. After some further time, The Committee rose informally to receive messages from the President. The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. LINDER, assumed the Chair. 124.15 MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Sundry messages in writing from the President of the United States were communicated to the House by Mr. Edwin Thomas, one of his secretaries, who also informed the House the President, subsequent to the sine die adjournment of the First Session of the 104th Congress, approved and signed bills of the House of the following titles: January 4, 1996: H.R. 2808. An Act to extend authorities under the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act of 1994 until March 31, 1996, and for other purposes. January 6, 1996: H.R. 1655. An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes. January 10, 1996: H.R. 394. An Act to amend title 4 of the United States Code to limit State taxation of certain pension income. H.R. 2627. An Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemo ration of the sesquicentennial of the founding of the Smithsonian Institution. January 11, 1996: H.R. 2203. An Act to reauthorize the tied aid credit program of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and to allow the Export-Import Bank to conduct a demonstration project. January 16, 1996: H.R. 1295. An Act to amend the Trademark Act of 1946 to make certain revisions relating to the protection of famous marks. The Committee resumed its sitting; and after some further time spent therein, 124.16 RECORDED VOTE A recorded vote by electronic device was ordered in the Committee of the Whole on the following amendment submitted by Mr. ISTOOK: At the end of the bill (preceding the short title), add the following new title: TITLE V-DISCLOSURE OF LOBBYING SEC. 5001. (a) DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS.Not later than December 31 of each year, each organization receiving a Federal grant shall provide (via either electronic or paper medium) to each Federal entity that awarded or administered its grant an annual report for the previous Federal fiscal year, certified by the organization's chief executive officer of equivalent person of authority, setting forth (1) the organization's name and grantee identification number: (2) the amount or value of each grant (including all administrative and overhead costs awarded), and the description of each such grant and the name of the Federal agency awarding such grant; and (3) a good faith estimate of the organization's actual expenses on lobbying activities in the most recent taxable year. (b) EXEMPTIONS.-This section shall not apply to an individual or a State, local, or Indian tribal government. (c) DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this section: (1) FEDERAL GRANT.-The term "Federal grant" means money or real property that is paid or provided by the Federal Government to any organization. Such term does not include (A) any assistance described in section 6302(2) of title 31, United States Code; (B) any amount paid under a procurement contract described in section 6303(1) of such title; or (C) and payment or assistance described in clause (ii), (iii), (iv), or (vii) of section. 6501(4)(C) of such title. (2) LOBBYING ACTIVITY.-The term "lobbying activity" means any activity that is either (A) a lobbying activity within the meaning of section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995; or (B) an activity influencing legislation within the meaning of section 4911 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Such term shall also include advocating the election or defeat of any candidate for public office, or the passage or non-passage of any ballot proposition. (D) PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY.— (1) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF LOBBYING DISCLOSURE FORMS.—Each Federal entity awarding a Federal grant shall make publicly available the grant application, and any annual report provided under subsection (a) by the organization receiving the grant. (2) ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC.-The public's access to the documents identified in paragraph (1) shall be facilitated by the Federal entity by (A) placement of such documents in the Federal entity's public document reading room; (B) expediting any requests under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (the Freedom of Information Act), ahead of any requests for other information pending at such Federal entity; and (C) submitting to the Bureau of the Census a report (standardized by the Office of Management and Budget) setting forth the information provided in such documents, which the Bureau of the Census shall make available to the public through the Internet. (3) WITHHOLDING PROHIBITED.-Records described in paragraph (1) shall not be subject to withholding, except under the exemption set forth in subsection (b)(7)(A) of section 552 of title 5, United States Code. (4) FEES PROHIBITED.-No fees for searching for or copying such documents shall be charged to the public. (e) CONSTRUCTION.-No provision of this section may be construed to affect whether any organization is exempt from, or subject to, tax under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. (f) REGULATIONS.-The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall issue any regulations necessary to carry out this section. (g) EFFECTIVE DATE. (1) IN GENERAL.-This section shall take effect January 1, 1996, and apply thereafter. (2) PRIOR ACTIVITIES NOT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. In applying this section, only expenditures made after December 31, 1995, in taxable years ending after such date shall be taken into account. (3) ANNUALIZATION FOR PARTIAL TAXABLE YEARS.-in the case of a taxable year that ends after December 31, 1995, and begins before January 1, 1996, each of the dollar amounts applicable under this section shall be proportionally reduced to reflect the portion of such taxable year after December 31, 1995. It was decided in the affirmative ... 124.17 Allard Archer Armey Bachus Baker (CA) Baker (LA) Ballenger Barr Barrett (NE) Bartlett Barton Bass Bateman Hoke Hostettler Hunter Hutchinson (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF LEDGER.-Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: "DEFICIT REDUCTION LOCK-BOX LEDGER "SEC. 314. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF LEDGER.The Director of the Congressional Budget Office (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Director") shall maintain a ledger to be known as the "Deficit Reduction Lock-box Ledger". The Ledger shall be divided into entries corresponding to the subcommittees of the Committees on Appropriations. Each entry shall consist of three parts: the 'House Lock-box Balance'; the 'Senate Lock-box Balance'; and the 'Joint House-Senate Lockbox Balance'. "(b) COMPONENTS OF LEDGER.-Each component in an entry shall consist only of amounts credited to it under subsection (c). No entry of a negative amount shall be made. "(c) CREDIT OF AMOUNTS TO LEDGER.—(1) The Director shall, upon the engrossment of any appropriation bill by the House of Representatives and upon the engrossment of that bill by the Senate, credit to the applicable entry balance of that House amounts of new budget authority and outlays equal to the net amounts of reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by that House to that bill. "(2) The Director shall, upon the engrossment of Senate amendments to any appropriation bill, credit to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance the amounts of new budget authority and outlays equal to "(A) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i) the amount of new budget authority in the House Lock-box Balance plus (ii) the amount of new budget authority in the Senate Lock-box Balance for that bill; and "(B) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i) the amount of outlays in the House Lock-box Balance plus (ii) the amount of outlays in the Senate Lock-box Balance for that bill. "(3) CALCULATION OF LOCK-BOX SAVINGS IN SENATE. For purposes of calculating under this section the net amounts of reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by the Senate on an appropriation bill, the amendments reported to the Senate by its Committee on Appropriations shall be considered to be part of the original text of the bill. "(d) DEFINITION.-As used in this section, the term 'appropriation bill' means any general or special appropriation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations through the end of a fiscal year.". (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.-The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Con gressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 313 the following new item: "Sec. 314. Deficit reduction lock-box ledger.". SEC. 503. TALLY DURING HOUSE CONSIDERATION. There shall be available to Members in the House of Representatives during consideration of any appropriations bill by the House a running tally of the amendments adopted reflecting increases and decreases of budget authority in the bill as reported. SEC. 504. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF 602(a) ALLOCATIONS AND SECTION 602(b) SUBALLOCATIONS. (a) ALLOCATIONS.-Section 602(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(5) Upon the engrossment of Senate amendments to any appropriation bill (as defined in section 314(d)) for a fiscal year, the amounts allocated under paragraph (1) or (2) to the Committee on Appropriations of each House upon the adoption of the most recent concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal year shall be adjusted downward by the amounts credited to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance under section 314(c)(2). The revised levels of budget authority and outlays shall be submitted to each House by the chairman of the Committee on the Budget of that House and shall be printed in the Congressional Record.". (b) SUBALLOCATIONS.-Section 602(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: "Whenever an adjustment is made under subsection (a)(5) to an allocation under that subsection, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of each House shall make downward adjustments in the most recent suballocations of new budget authority and outlays under subparagraph (A) to the appropriate subcommittees of that committee in the total amounts of those adjustments under section 314(c)(2). The revised suballocations shall be submitted to each House by the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of that House and shall be printed in the Congressional Record.". SEC. 505. PERIODIC REPORTING OF LEDGER STATEMENTS. Section 308(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: "Such reports shall also include an up-to-date tabulation of the amounts contained in the ledger and each entry established by section. 314(a).". SEC. 506. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS. The discretionary spending limits for new budget authority and outlays for any fiscal year set forth in section 601(a)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as adjusted in strict conformance with section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, shall be reduced by the amounts set forth in the final regular appropriation bill for that fiscal year or joint resolution making continuing appropriations through the end of that fiscal year. Those amounts shall be the sums of the Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balances for that fiscal year, as calculated under section 602(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. That bill or joint resolution shall contain the following statement of law: "As required by section 6 of the Deficit Reduction Lock-box Act of 1995, for fiscal year [insert appropriate fiscal year] and each out-year, the adjusted discretionary spending limit for new budget authority shall be reduced by $ [insert appropriate amount of reduction] and the adjusted discretionary limit for outlays shall be re Scott Sensenbrenner Serrano Slaughter So the amendment was agreed to. The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mr. LAHOOD, assumed the Chair. When Mr. DREIER, Chairman, pursuant to House Resolution 372, reported the bill back to the House with sundry amendments adopted by the Committee. The previous question having been ordered by said resolution. The following amendments, reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, were agreed to: At the end of the bill (preceding the short title), add the following new title: TITLE V-DISCLOSURE OF LOBBYING duced by $ [insert appropriate amount of reduction] for the budget year and each outyear." Notwithstanding section 904(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 306 of that Act as it applies to this statement shall be waived. This adjustment shall be reflected in reports under sections 254(g) and 254(h) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. SEC. 507. EFFECTIVE DATE. (a) IN GENERAL.-This title shall apply to all appropriation bills making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 or any subsequent fiscal year. (b) FY96 APPLICATION.-In the case of any appropriation bill for fiscal year 1996 engrossed by the House of Representatives after August 4, 1995 and before the date of enactment of this bill, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Committees on Appropriations and the Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and of the Senate shall, within 10 calendar days after that date of enactment of this Act, carry out the duties required by this title and amendments made by it that occur after the date this Act was engrossed by the House of Representatives. (c) FY96 ALLOCATIONS.-The duties of the Director of the Congressional Budget Office and of the Committees on the Budget and on Appropriations of the House of Representatives pursuant to this title and the amendments made by it regarding appropriation bills for fiscal year 1996 shall be based upon the revised section 602(a) allocations in effect on August 4, 1995. (d) DEFINITION.-As used in this section, the term "appropriation bill" means any general or special appropriation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations through the end of a fiscal year. It was decided in the | Yeas Nays affirmative .... Hall (TX) Hancock Hastert Hayworth Hoekstra Horn Manzullo Sawyer Martinez Scarborough NOT VOTING-13 Radanovich Stockman Stokes Martini Schaefer Clay Mascara Schiff Collins (MI) Johnson (SD) Myers Hastings (WA) Matsui McCarthy McKeon SEC. 5001. (a) DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS.— Not later than December 31 of each year, each organization receiving a Federal grant shall provide (via either electronic or paper medium) to each Federal entity that awarded or administered its grant an annual report for the previous Federal fiscal year, certified by the organization's chief executive officer of equivalent person of authority, setting forth (1) the organization's name and grantee identification number; (2) the amount or value of each grant (including all administrative and overhead costs awarded), and the description of each. such grant and the name of the Federal agency awarding such grant; and (3) a good faith estimate of the organization's actual expenses on lobbying activities in the most recent taxable year. (b) EXEMPTIONS. This section shall not apply to an individual or a State, local, or Indian tribal government. (c) DEFINITIONS.-For purposes of this section: (1) FEDERAL GRANT. The term "Federal grant” means money or real property that is paid or provided by the Federal Government to any organization. Such term does not include (A) any assistance described in section 6302(2) of title 31, United States Code; (B) any amount paid under a procurement contract described in section 6303(1) of such title; or (C) and payment or assistance described in clause (ii), (iii), (iv), or (vii) of section 6501(4)(C) of such title. (2) LOBBYING ACTIVITY.-The term "lobbying activity" means any activity that is either (A) a lobbying activity within the meaning of section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995; or (B) an activity influencing legislation within the meaning of section 4911 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Such term shall also include advocating the election or defeat of any candidate for public office, or the passage or non-passage of any ballot proposition. (D) PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY.— (1) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF LOBBYING DISCLOSURE FORMS.-Each Federal entity awarding a Federal grant shall make publicly available the grant application, and any annual report provided under subsection (a) by the organization receiving the grant. (2) ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC.-The public's access to the documents identified in paragraph (1) shall be facilitated by the Federal entity by (A) placement of such documents in the Federal entity's public document reading room; |